# Cold (Re: wish-list)

Brandon Gillespie (brandon@tombstone.sunrem.com)
Wed, 21 Aug 1996 16:00:37 PDT

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    On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Colin McCormick wrote:
    > On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Brandon Gillespie wrote:
    > > Or you can just use Cold, its core interpreter clocks 10 to nearly 30
    > > times faster than MOO.  You can see the tests I am pulling this from at:
    > >
    > >     http://www.cold.org/MOOvsCold.html
    > >
    > > If you want to know the reasons, I can explain why this is.
    >
    > I wonder about these tests -- the first one, about forced task preempting,
    > looks pretty convincing, but the other two use LambdaCore verbs (such as
    > player:tell() and $string_utils:explode()) that take a lot of overhead.
    > I don't know Cold from a hole in the wall, but it does seem like there
    > are more efficient ways in MOO (using notify(), match(), etc.) to
    > accomplish these tested tasks.
    >
    > Could you try running the tests using just MOO builtins?

    Yup :)  But its been ages since I gave up on MOO, can you give me code to
    do this, that I can eval from LambdaCore?

    Admittedly, the string stuff was intended not as much for driver but for
    driver+core.

    -Brandon